Use the Internet for Information
For students who are starting their college searches, be sure to visit the Pomperaug High School website at www.pomperaug.com. Scroll down to the Guidance and Career Center area. We have listed links to many good web sites as well as providing links to career and scholarship information. IN addition, the following web sites offer one-stop shops that include searchable databases of college information, test preparation aids, virtual tours and online applications. Here are some of the leading sites and some of the additional features they contain.
THE COLLEGE BOARD: www.collegeboard.com: Features online registration for the SAT and help with essay preparation. Plans to offer soon a search feature called LikeFinder, which will enable students to find colleges similar to the ones they are reading about, and a feature that will generate side-by-side comparisons of selected colleges.
COLLEGELINK: www.collegelink.com: Offers a month-by-month planner and articles about financial aid.
COLLEGENET: www.collegenet.com: The CollegeBot search engine looks at college-related web sites.
PETERSON'S COLLEGEQUEST: www.collegequest.com: Includes a personal organizer, practice tests for the SAT and ACT, and discussion groups.
EMBARK: www.embark.com: Offers online "lockers" where students can store applications in progress and results of searches.
Some websites, like the ones below, focus on specific aspects of the college search:
CPNET AND U-WIRE: www.cpnet.com, www.uwire.com: News from college newspapers around the country.
FAFSA ON THE WEB: www.fafsa.ed.gov: An online version of the federal financial aid form.
FASTWEB: www.fastweb.com: A database of scholarships and grants.
FINAID: www.finaid.org: Calculators and resources to help demystify the financial aid process.
NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATION STATISTICS/IPEDS COLLEGE OPPORTUNITIES ONLINE: www.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool: A database of 9,000 colleges. Students can search for colleges based on a profile of the types of schools they are interested in.